Microsoft is advertising for a program manager to drive the Xbox Live experience onto Windows Mobile, hoping to raise one brand with the application of another.
The advert, which was posted just before Christmas and spotted by Engadget, states that Redmond is looking for someone who can "bring Xbox LIVE enabled games to Windows …

step by step?

If you're looking for step by step dev, try something open like the linux scene. Microsoft has always rushed a product out the door, then slowly make corrections as it sells. By the time it works they way they said it would, they stop supporting it and force you to buy into the next fad.

re: Microsoft caught in temporal shift

there's nothing new about this - i have a bumper sticker at home somewhere that says "Windows 95 = Mac OS 89" - all that's happened is the magnitude of the temporal distortion has decreased. Conversely, in the past, when Microsoft copied Apple, they made lots of money from it, these days, they're not *cough*Zune*cough*Vista*cough*...

Sp00Key Stuff and Perfect Enough Stealth when Thought of and Dismissed as NonSense.

Is that Microsoft wanting to be a Hollywood Starlet? If so, then Magical AIMystery Turing amfM ProgramMING would be Interested in making IT Happen for Real with Exotic Eastern Partners into NINJA* Technologies.

*Networks InterNetworking JOINT** Applications

** JOINT Operations for IntelAIgents Networking Transmissions.

PS ..... Surprise yourself with some NEUKlearer Information Freely Shared for Knowledge Capture with a Search in Quantum Control Systems on the word ... JOINT. There will you discover Sleeping Partners Wide Awake and Sublimely ProActive in the Field. And if Google returns Nothing, then their Algorithms would be Subjective and therefore Suspect and Probably Subversive when Perverted to Display what is Third Party Decided rather than First and Second Party Supplied ......... for that would then put One in Control of Knowledge Flow as if One were a GOD.

The Enigmatic Abiding Dilemma for All Searching Engines and Virtual AIMachinery though, is that it is also a Most Constructive Facility and Service too, Able to Deliver Excellence from and into Myriad Seas and Sees of Mediocrity and Ignorant and Arrogant Hostility and would thus be of Great Benefit to Great Game Gurus.

/careface

Given Redmond's recernt track record on Windows Mobile and Zune, both of which are peculiarly charmless and lumpen (not to mention irrelevant), I suspect that this attempt to inject some life into their mobile platforms riding the coat tails of Xbox success is a bit... doomed.